Photo tools restyle a room that already exists. Gridsnap starts earlier, from the measured design, so the drawing and the picture belong to one project.
The image is a separate picture. Nothing in it is written back to the design, so the walls, sizes and finishes you hand a builder never move.
The furniture you placed and the finishes you chose are what the image starts from. There is no photo to take and no prompt to write.
Every image sits beside the exact view it was made from. Drag across the two and see where the picture kept your design and where it did not.
Draw the rooms to typed sizes, trace an existing plan, or start from a template. Furnish the rooms and choose the floor, wall and furniture finishes.
Click Render in the 3D view, or Export → AI render… from any view. Use the current 3D view, a saved view, or a storey seen straight down with the rooms open.
The image usually arrives in a minute or two and keeps generating if you close the window. Compare it, download it, or generate another from the same view.
Three modes and three lighting moods. The moods are for the picture: they are not a lighting or sun study.
Realistic light and materials. Furniture, finishes and layout are asked to stay as you designed them.
As designed, plus a few small everyday objects such as a bowl, mugs, a book or a throw. No furniture is added or replaced.
Try a palette of colours and finishes in the image: Warm natural, Scandinavian or Contemporary. Furniture shapes and the layout are asked to stay, and nothing is applied to your plan.
Soft, balanced daylight.
Warmer, softer light. Finishes keep their colours.
Evening ambience from the light fittings you modelled. No lamps or windows are added.
Each of these starts with a plan. Pick the one closest to your job.
Draw the home as it is and the change you want, then render the proposal from the room you will stand in. The same project gives your builder a scaled PDF or DWG and gives everyone else a picture of the result.
Lay out the room with furniture at real sizes and finishes on single wall faces and furniture parts, then turn the views you would present into presentation images. Explore a style shows a second direction in the picture without touching the scheme you drew.
When the rooms do not exist yet, or are empty, a plan is what you have. Trace the floor plan, furnish it, and render the storey from above or a room in 3D to show buyers how the space could be lived in.
An AI image is an illustration, not a photograph of the property. Many markets require virtually staged or illustrative images to be labelled; label them as such.
Clients approve what they can picture. Draw the proposal you are quoting, then send a presentation image of the main room beside the scaled drawing you price from.
AI images come with every Pro payment option, together with the rest of Pro. The plan, 3D and the overhead render stay free.
| Plan | AI images |
|---|---|
| Free | None. Drawing, 3D views and the overhead render stay free. |
| Pro Monthly or Pro Annual | 50 a month. Unused images do not roll over. |
| 90-day Pro access | 150 in total, used whenever you like within the 90 days. |
| Extra images | 50 more for $9 once, with Pro. They never expire and are used after your monthly images. |
Every image you generate counts, including ones you decide not to keep. An image that fails is not counted. If you leave Pro, you can still view, compare and download your images. Prices and payment options →
Yes, on Pro. Draw or trace the plan in Gridsnap, furnish it and choose finishes, then make an AI presentation image from a 3D view, a saved view or a storey seen from above. It starts from your Gridsnap design, not from an uploaded picture of a plan.
It is a presentation image, not a drawing. Gridsnap asks the AI to keep your furniture, finishes and layout, and you can compare each image with the view it came from, but it is AI-generated and details may differ. For anything measured, use the PDF or DWG of the plan.
No. Nothing in an image is applied to the design, including a palette you explore. The plan, its sizes and its finishes stay exactly as you drew them.
No. Images are made from views of a design in Gridsnap. If you want to restyle a photo of an existing room, a photo-based tool is the better choice; if you have a plan, or want one, Gridsnap gives you the plan and the picture in one project.
Usually a minute or two. Generation continues if you close the window, and the image appears in Images when it is ready.
Pro Monthly and Pro Annual include 50 images a month, without rollover. 90-day Pro access includes 150 for the 90 days. 50 extra images cost $9 once and never expire. Every image you generate counts, including ones you do not keep; a failed image does not.
Yes. The overhead render is free: a lit, textured image of one storey from straight above, as PNG or a one-page PDF, rendered from the model itself rather than by AI. The live 3D view, with your finishes in the Realistic style, is free too.
Open an example plan, switch to 3D and click Render, or start your own plan. AI images are part of Gridsnap Pro; drawing the plan is free.
